If you claimed some of our cast-off goods, please get ahold of me in the next few days to set up a pickup time. The evenings next week, and next weekend (14th/15th) are reasonably free for us.

Also, I have it on good word that we will be seeing the 6:40 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy show at the Paramount (the new theatre on Burrard) on ( Read more... )

Hey kids!

It's spring cleaning time. We're moving soon, so we're getting rid of all the stuff we no longer need. Take a look and let me know if you want anything:

http://phlegmatic.ca/Freecycle

You must come to our place to pick up (Lougheed station on the skytrain).

Since my last book-related entry I've read:

• The Scar, China Mieville: Excellent. Had some very nice characters, and a plot that's almost as good as Perdido Street Station. Uther Doul is great.


• Iron Council, China Mieville: Good, but a little heavy on the left-leaning political rhetoric. I admire the fact that Mieville isn't afraid to show ( Read more... )

I think I will start blogging all the Special Surrey Moments I have while going to work. In this way I get to spread the misery/hilarity that is my daily commute ( Read more... )

So we are going to Seattle in September to see DCD. Where should we stay? Needs to be somewhere downtown near the Amtrak station.

I am tempted to try the Vagabond Hotel, because.... VAGABOND HOTEL.

DEAD CAN DANCE.
SEATTLE.
ON MY BIRTHDAY.

Tomorrow the forecast calls for sun and 17 degree temperatures. Anyone want to go for a bike ride?

Caitlin is making a Vancouver community transportation map for her class this semester. They are focusing on sustainable transportation (biking, walking, transit), and she is specifically dealing with cycling. She has covered the obvious things (bike routes, stores for cheap/used bike gear and maintenance, bike lockers, bikes on transit), and ( Read more... )

Cyclist tan in February == awesome ( Read more... )

I'm almost done Kafka on the Shore. I'm not quite sure what to think of it. It's certainly an entertaining and easy read, and shares the same general style and concepts as Hardboiled Wonderland and Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (I think Murakami's got a monopoly on "orgasm as a portal to another dimension"). Kafka's characters are actually quite good, ( Read more... )